If this message is not displaying properly, please view the online version.   Building a trusted community of professional colleagues around the world DEC 2015 ISSUE     ICMCI ExCom Update                     CMC Toolkit               This month the toolkit provides CMC’s with links to key sites where they can find information on HR and related topics. Requisite Organization International Institute The Requisite Organization is one of the most seminal and fundamentally brilliant concepts of organizational design of the past century. If you are an HR Consultant you should know this work, and the institute that has kept Elliott’s work alive since his death in 2003.http://www.requisite.org/           FEATURE ARTICLE     Are you wasting limited training dollars on programs that just don't work? I often say that when it's time for a company to start shaving costs one of the first line items on the budget that quickly gets reduced or cut altogether is the training budget. This leaves many human resources professionals with a dilemma, how to spend the limited training dollars they have, on programs that actually have a long lasting impact on performance of the business? Zoom in and then backwards Think about the following questions: What gets you out of bed in the morning? How do you/can you create meaning? How do you have freedom? Why are so many leaders unable to get the best out of their teams? How can I help people in my organization understand and adapt to change better? Disillusioned with Employee Engagement Surveys? You are Not Alone! CEOs and Heads of HR are increasingly skeptical about employee engagement surveys. If you are reading this article, you are probably in that same camp. How can this be? We all know how important it is to have engaged employees. The research evidence is overwhelming. As executives and managers in organizations, we don't need research to tell us that engaged employees are better performers.    Caught in the Action!               III National Conference for Management Consultants in Tadjikistan - sponsored by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.       Toronto 2016               4th CMC International Management Consulting Conference October 18-21, 2016 Following on the heels of a very succesful 2015 conference, the next one is set for Toronto in 2016. Watch this space for more information. In the meantime, book your calendar now for next year! Also: check out the promotional video for Toronto on our YouTube-channel here for an exciting preview on what's to come in 2016. We hope to see you there!             IMC Share Zone Winter Conference of the National Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Russia (NICMC)   Management Consulting: What Works Today In recent years, more and more noticeable that management consulting is becoming more of specialized and organized: there are more companies that offer optimization of business processes...       ICMCI C'tee Updates               ICMCI Academic Fellows Committee We have recently approved the nominations of seven new Academic Fellows who are now included in our comminity-wide updates: Dr. Meral Toprak - Istanbul K?lt?r University - Turkey Angelo Kehayas - South African College of Applied Psychology - Johannesburg, SA Steen Hildebrandt - University of Copenhagen - Denmark Asylbek Koshakhmetov - Almaty Management University - Kazakhstan         CALENDAR OF EVENTS   February     25-27, 2016   Winter Conference of NICMC of Russia WHERE: Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow   October     18-21, 2016   ICMCI Annual Meeting and International Conference, October 18-20 CMC Canada Conference, October 21st WHERE: Toronto     2014-15 CMC Today Publishing Schedule & Themes         Publishing Month Theme July-Aug Leadership Sept - October Information Technology & Organizational Effectiveness Software Nov - December Human Resources & Training Jan - February Internal Processes/Systems/Quality-BPR/Productivity Mar - April Governance May - June Government/Community/Public Relations Please submit articles, photos, business exchange requests, etc., addressing the theme of each issue, by the 10th day of the first of the two Publishing Months to: cmctoday@icmci.org. Click here to get a copy of the CMC Today Article Criteria. Failure to submit your article according to these criteria may cause your article to be rejected. Quick Quiz     Does Your Training & Development Deliver Excellent ROI? Q1 - Does your Strategic Thinking include Replacement Economy Dynamics? Q2 - Does your Training Design Match your Training Impact Expectations? Q3 - Are your Trainers able to "Live What They Teach"?           Video Blog               Are You a Manager or a Leader? Dwight W. Mihalicz, CMC   Why Good Leaders Make you Feel Safe Simon Sinek The Way We Think About Work is Broken Barry Swartz                 ? 2015 International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. All Rights Reserved. Forward to a friend | Unsubscribe